San Antonio Wax Museum Removes Statue Of Trump Because Customers Were Punching And Scratching It

The San Antonio Express-News reports:

San Antonio doesn’t have Donald Trump to push around — and claw — anymore. At least not for the time being.

Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks on Alamo Plaza moved the wax figure of the former president to a storage room because a few museum visitors — with intense feelings and a lack of self-restraint — kept pummeling him.

They punched and scratched the figure, inflicting so much damage that management had it pulled from public view, said Clay Stewart, regional manager for Ripley Entertainment, which owns the wax museum.

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